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Recent Examples of replumb
California water officials are poised to release the first environmental review of a controversial project to replumb the delta — a plan in the works for decades that has alternately been called a water grab or a critical update to shore up state supplies.
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Rachel Becker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2022
Named for a president eager to replumb the West, Roosevelt Dam was completed in 1911, one year before Arizona became a state.
—Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
Rachel Becker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2022
Named for a president eager to replumb the West, Roosevelt Dam was completed in 1911, one year before Arizona became a state.
—Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replumb
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Enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act required UPS to remeasure its UPS IBT Pension plan at current discount rates, which have increased since the previous measurement date.—
Walter Loeb,
Forbes,
27 Apr. 2021
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Petco groundskeepers may want to remeasure the distance from the plate to the fence.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2020
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Laser-like light that spans a wide range of frequencies is a powerful tool for science and industry.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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The band’s ninth studio album has been restored, remastered and expanded with an additional 25 bonus tracks, spanning alternate studio takes and live recordings by the famed bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26, 1975.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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Technology works, but scaling it to a level that meaningfully impacts global emissions is an entirely different challenge.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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At the meeting, city leaders expressed support for scaling back its congregate homeless facilities and instead focusing on micro-communities.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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This includes parsing public-sector budgets to predict hiring trends in government, analyzing job postings on platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed to forecast future demand, and even tracking sentiment on professional networks to gauge worker confidence and potential attrition.—
Jeff Gapusan,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider universe.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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As well as being a smart space-saving option, this makes sense as the robot vacuum mop can be plumbed into the house water system, which will be where the washing machine is already located.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Replumb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replumb. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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